WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Kingsley, Individual And Group Rights, Isabella Bird
13 Apr 2015
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Last weeks" lecture on women and the nation state should make clear that the effects of colonialism are also gendered. Women"s lives dominate in the private sphere but they are, somewhat counter-intuitively, even more vulnerable to policies and mandates that happen in the public sphere. Colonial legacy(ies) contribute to habits of white and male privilege; to the exoticization and de- humanization of certain types of bodies; and to the criminalization of certain customs and traditions. The results of this legacy are born differently by men and women. Women as travellers and women as workers in the tourism industry are often involved in tourism in ways that serve to entrench patriarchy in their homes or in their nation states. Package group travellers who need guidance and protection. Domestic labourers (in hotels, etc) that allow re-enactment of colonial servitude. Enloe talks about them as the two sides of the coin of early tourism. Brings them up; half a dozen of famous ones.
